Tanzania gets dose of care with Lafayette flavor

A group of 15 folks from Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette recently took a trip to Tanzania to visit one of Exempla’s adopted sister hospitals.

The group hand-carried huge duffel bags of medicine and equipment to a hospital in the city of Arusha, said Sandy Cavanaugh, Exempla’s vice president for community and business development. The city of 400,000 is known as the gateway for bush safaris and climbs of nearby Mount Kilimanjaro.

The hospital exchange is the latest effort in a more than eight-year program in which health-care professionals here correspond with colleagues in Tanzania, Cavanaugh said. Making such…